Believe Quote by Howard Jacobson

I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.

— Orhan Pamuk

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

— John le Carre

Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

— John Banville

Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.

— Heinrich Boll

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

— Hilary Mantel

I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in some way…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

— Irvine Welsh

“Somedays you have to write even when you think you're putting out crap. You just need to tell yourself that you'll fix the problems…

— Christopher Rice

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new…

— Haruki Murakami

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

— Russell Smith

Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to…

— Jose Saramago